Actually, it wasn't. It was beaten by several programmes by miles. We learned that only the other day.
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Watched The Lady in the Van. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Alex Jennings is more Alan Bennett than Alan Bennett. Maggie Smith is excellent as usual. I even laughed out loud at one point, but generally I was smiling most of the time. Very English.
Kylie Jenner wants to copyright the name Kylie. The real Kylie has objected. One question....who is Kylie Jenner?
I feel a little ashamed that I know this, but she's one of the Kardashian clan thing. Daughter of Kris Jenner (formerly Kardashian) and Bruce (now Caitlyn) Jenner.
Think Fats might have a point or two to make about this .............. I agree - there's only one Kylie and who is this upstart?
I claim the copyright on that one. But it is a bit odd. For most of the world Kylie = Minogue. This one can call herself Kylie. But why do so unless she can gain some sort of advantage? I've just told my wife that as of tonight I wish to be known as Daniel Craig. The words "Idiot" and "in your dreams" were spluttered as she fell about laughing.
The Man Who Wasn't There is a really good one. Stars Billy Bob Thornton, and James Gandolfini is superb as usual. Give it a watch you might like it although you might not... The Big Lebowski is my favourite movie ever.
Tbf, The Big Lebowski never attracted me, and when I did watch it I wasn't in the right mood for it. I can't even remember what it is all about [don't tell me], so that gives some indication of the attention I paid to it. But I quite like Jeff Bridges as an actor, so one day I will give it another try.
All set to go out when it started to spit. Glad I didn't, all hell has let loose. Going to build a shelter under my kitchen table.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35696701 Interesting decision by Supreme Court. They have ruled that Morrison's are liable for an attack by a member of their staff on a customer....whereas previously they couldn't have been held liable unless the attack was somehow part of the job i.e. security guard. The staff member apparently just pursued a non-abusive customer and hit him whilst using racially abusive words. However, the money awarded was the same as Morrison's previously offered voluntarily.
Just had a phone call from a cold-call sales agency, after quite a long time. Why, oh why are these companies actually allowed in this day.? I can't imagine who would want to buy from them. How these companies are even legal is beyond me. I would think only a tiny fraction of the population would want to receive these calls. What use are they serving beyond wasting the time of the desperately unemployed and the people they call.
They also keep unemployment figures down. I work in telesales, would you rather me quit and sign on? What were they selling?
I hang up if they haven't got a British accent. A British accent let's them deliver a sentence or two. I mentioned this at work and a colleague from India asked what would happen if she called...I told her that she wouldn't get past hello. The problem is that the most likely people to be trawled in are the elderly. My friend's father has lost all his savings to cold callers.
Does your company make cold calls to unsuspecting people who would much rather you didn't? Just before I left for NZ in the early 90's I took a job in telesales for 4 weeks. I made the company around £10K and a potential of about £40K [both figures are extremely conversative estimates]. I left being owed £1800+ and didn't receive a penny, simply because 1] I was disgusted with the company and its practices, and 2] I was disgusted with myself and I wouldn't take the money. Mind you, they were extremely happy to keep it. And this was a legitimate company selling business expertise to companies in trouble. So my opinion of telesales companies is a bit biased. But I doubt if my view of them is anything radical.
We're business-to-business. And your first line is definition of cold calling isn't it? Doesn't mean it's immoral. Also sounds you like worked for a dodgy company, but you shouldn't tar all with same brush. It just pisses me off when people slate sales jobs such as door-to-door and telesales when most people in those jobs have perfectly fine morals, pay their taxes and are just looking to earn a living? What would you do with everyone who was then unemployed if it was stopped?
If you are business to business telesales then you are not calling private individuals in their homes. To be honest, that's fine by me. It's the dodgy ones who prey on the unsuspecting that I have no time for. The company I worked for were called GAN. They were French, based in Kingston-Upon-Thames.
GAN, or General Portfolio, or Windsor Life in later incarnations, sold me a private pension and an endowment mortgage back in the 80's when I had no clue what was what. I later got full refunds on both via the Financial Services Ombudsman, as both were never going to deliver what they had promised to. They didn't do cold calls back then though, it was a close friend who sold them to me, to the cost of our friendship. On cold calling generally I am often amazed at the incompetence of the people calling. I regularly get calls purporting to be from Microsoft insisting that they need to tell me something vitally important about my computers, until I reply that I don't have a single device using Windows operating systems in the house. They go quiet then. The other thing is not actually being able to understand a single word of what the caller is saying. You would think that ability to make yourself understood in English was a minimum requirement for jobs in call centres dealing with the U.K.
I think a few companies are discovering that people prefer to speak to British people and are bringing their call centres back into the UK. My heart always sinks when I want to ask a technical question and discover the person is Punjabi or whatever...technical stuff always sounds like a foreign language without adding a real foreign language into it. I dread to think what a really elderly person thinks as I at least 'get it' if I persevere. I had one amusing call when a sweet lady in Mumbai (I assume) asked me to disconnect my hub. I told her that I'd have to move a wardrobe and I could hear the panic all the way from India as she begged me not to. The problem was resolved in the end without shifting any furniture.
